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Here’s
another gone, and almost forgotten barn. This one was at the far eastern
edge of the clearing associated with the Dechow Farm on M-22. Charles Olsen
helped his son Everett build it. The site of this barn can now just barely
be recognized, as a flat piece of ground (See the Everett Olsen Farm map).
This view of it is from the back of the field east of the Dechow Farm,
looking north across M-22 to the hills of Port Oneida. The clearing above
and to the left of the barn is the Martin Basch Farm on Baker Road.
Jack
Barratt remembers a fishing outing on the shoal north of Pyramid Point with
Everett—“One time we were lifting in the fall. Everett Olsen was with us,
Nels (Olsen) and I... and a northeaster came up and we had to drop the nets
overboard and take off for shore...Nels could skull (work a single long oar
from a notch in the back). Of course I was an experienced rower, having
been in the Coast Guard; and Everett was just a land-lubber. He had no idea
even how to row. In these seas he'd go to dip his oar, and he wouldn't get
it in the water even, and he'd go over backwards in the bottom of the boat.
I remember Nels saying, "Listen! Watch Jack, you damn land-lubber, you!...We
headed right for Pyramid. We didn't try to come down here, so we could get
to shore as soon as possible. And when we got on the beach we just fell on
our faces on the sand and recuperated." |